WordPress.tv folks can be reached through the WordPress Foundation. Lorelle
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Marc Beneteau <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I do appreciate your invitations and believe me, the "gears are turning". > The issue for me -- please allow me to speak plainly and if offense is > taken I apologize in advance -- is that IMHO Wiki and Media Wiki are not > suitable platforms for writing technical documentation, and perhaps one of > the reasons why the WordPress documentation is not up to the same quality > as WordPress code. But I've been seriously thinking about this, what needs > to happen (again IMHO) is an open-source Winhelp-clone system powered by > WordPress, that would be equivalent to my semi-proprietary system see for > instance: > > http://wpacademy.tv/about-wordpress-webinar-marathon.htm > > But would also be multi-authoring (which mine is not). I think its > doable, we just need to find coders, I can project-manage perhaps. Lorelle > you know some of the people at wordpress.tv., I have an old email of > yours that mentions some major documentation effort happening there, can > you send me personal mail [email protected] with that information > again? Anyone else interested as well, just let me know, this would be > WAY cool if we could pull it off. > > Thanks > > Marc > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Andrea Rennick > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As noted above, there's two ways you can contribute: >> >> - jump in to the codex and start writing / editing / correcting >> information >> >> - help with the user manual, which right now is a bunch of HTML pages. >> >> This may or may not change. there are PLENTY of pages right now we need >> people to edit so we can push an official user guide to actual users. >> That's way more important to use that what software is used to produce it >> (at this time). >> >> If you really want to jump in, get working, and earn a name for yourself, >> the user manual is the best place to start. We would honestly love to have >> you contribute. See this page >> http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/ for the current work list >> and you can also let me know personally which ones you'd like to start >> with. We have a weekly chat in IRC on Thursdays at 5pm Eastern for >> discussing specifics. >> >> >> a. >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Marc Beneteau <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> mm, sorry for wasting everyone's time, let me take up this conversation >>> privately. >>> >>> I am just trying to understand if its possible to have a Wiki-compatible >>> (multiple-authors) system that does what Winhelp does. Winhelp is the >>> documentation format for virtually all commercial software for a reason, I >>> would love it if we could do something similar for WordPress >>> >>> Marc >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Juan Correa <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Marc Beneteau <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Has there been any interest or any discussion in building a Wordpress >>>>> manual on Media Wiki? I could get behind that. >>>>> >>>> >>>> In fact, the WordPress Codex is powered by MediaWiki: >>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:About >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Juan Correa Poblete >>>> PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl) >>>> +56-9-99193873 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> wp-docs mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> wp-docs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Andrea Rennick, http://wpebooks.com and http://ronandandrea.com >> Co-author of WordPress All-In-One For Dummies http://rml.me/aio >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-docs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > >
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